STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2210

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2093
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental
Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2093 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO VETERANS RIGHTS AND
     BENEFITS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to require the Comptroller,
at the request of a deceased Filipino veteran's survivor or an
interested party, to make payment directly to a mortuary or
crematory for providing funeral and burial services.

     The measure also provides for transporting the veteran's
remains to the Philippines, upon the submission of a contract for
services on behalf of the deceased veteran and an itemized unpaid
invoice.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the
Department of Accounting and General Services, the Office of
Veterans Services, and three members of the World War II Filipino
American Veterans, Hawaii Chapter. 

     Upon consideration of all pertinent issues and testimony
presented, your Committee finds that this measure will correct
the injustice to World War II Filipino veterans by making payment
directly to a mortuary or crematory for funeral and burial
services and for transporting the veteran's remains to the
Philippines.  
  

 
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     Your Committee has amended this measure by designating the
Office of Veteran Services as the entity to receive, review, and
approve requests for funeral and burial services, and
transportation costs, and limiting the amount to $2,500 per
person. 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs that is
attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the
intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2093, as amended herein, and
recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached
hereto as S.B. No. 2093, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee
on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Transportation
                                   and Intergovernmental Affairs,



                                   ______________________________
                                   CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair


 
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